The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22
ITEMS In THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

Gov. Gordon Modif1es the Penalty of
Saloon Keeper of Glynn - A
Summer Lady Kills Rather With a
Gun-A Sumter County Man Falls
Into Well, But Trusts to the Lord
and Scrambles Out.
GEORGIA
Sweat Jenkins, in jumping from moving
train at Dupont Thursday fell and broke
a leg.
Abner Jones, of Berrien county, who is
nearly 100 years old, attended preaching
for the first time last Sunday at what is
known as the Gaskins church.
Joe Harper, colored. brought into Alapaha
Irwin's first bale, Thursday. 1t weighed
$40 pounds, and was purchased by the firm
of Roberts & Mcmillan at $40.
Judge T. W. Powell, Ordinary of Berrien
county, died AT his home near Nashville, on
Sunday night last. after a long illness, of
consumption, aged about 30 years.
Wednesday evening D. j. Luke brought
Berrien's first bale of cotton to Alapaha- 1t
weighed AS pounds, and was purchased by
the firm of Shaw q Paulk, for S $1,000.
The Hilton Timber and Lumber Company
of Brunswick, during the first half of this
month shipped nearly million feet of lum
Der; 1872, l26 feet of sawn timber. 6,906 feet
of deals, and l SOL feet of hewn timber.
The drought that has prevailed in
Dougherty county for more than two weeks
following upon the excessive rainfall of the
flood season, has at last been broken, but
not before it affected cotton injuriously.
The resident survivors of the gallant
Fourth Georgia regiment are making every
preparation to fittlngly welcome and suit
ably entertain their old comrades in arms
at the reunion to be held in Albany ON
Sept. :.
The surviving Confederate soldiers of
Terrell county have determined to have
reunion and organize an association, and
have selected the first Tuesday in Septem-
Der next as the day, and the court honse i'll
Dawson as the place.
The decomposed remains of an old colored
woman named Sarah Ann Stafford, We're
found in a shanty about seven miles from
Brunswick on Monday. She was last seen
alive few days prior to the time her
remains were found.
Funds are being collected for the erection
of Methodist church at Enigma The lot
and lumber have been donated and funds
are needed only for the carpenter work
The church will be open to all denomina-
tions except when being used by the Metho-
dists.
Some one made an attempt to set FIRE to
day night. Fortunately it was discovered
iii its inclpiency by a cnance pasSer-by and
extinguished before any damage was done
There is no clue to the fiend who made the
unsuccessful attempt.
Valdosta Times. A gentleman who keeps
up with the building prospects, con
tractor-says that 100000 brick will be
laid in Valdosta next summer. One million
let's see, that amount will put up ten stores
rh XX5n1lH hn
store more only than was put up last sum
mer, but most of them were one-Story high.
AT Sumner, one day last week, while R.
X. Young was away from home, Mrs
Young happened to go TO the door in time
to discover a huge rattlesnake crawl out
from under the house and make off toward
the field, and, with the heroic presence of
mind not often found among the fair sex,
she took the gun and went in pursuit of the
monster, and as soon as she got in good
shooting distance took deliberate aim and
fired, killing the snake which sported twelve
Tattles and button.
P. Keller was convicted at the May term
of the Glynn Superior Court of the offense
of keeping open "tippling house" on the
Sabbath day. and Judge Atkinson SEN
fenced him to pay a fine of 1850 Subse-
Quently Keller applied to Gov. Gordon to
reduce his fine 1t was represented to the
Governor that Keller had heretofore borne
q good character, and that he was a poor
man and had a wife and seven children to
support. Upon the strength of this state
ment of the case, vouched for by the Off
cials and prominent citizens of the county,
the Governor ordered Kelly discharged upon
che payment of 500 and the court costs.
Zimri Market, of Sumter county, at
tended services at Tabernacle church, near
Magnolia Springs, Friday night, and while
there had a narrow escape from what might
have been a serious accident. While walk
ing out near the church he stepped into an
old and unused well that had not been
properly covered over, and fell a distance of
80 feet or more to the bottom. He was con-
siderably stunned and shaken up by the
fall, as may be imagined, but recovering
himself, he began calling for help from
those in the building. Failing to make him
self heard, he decided that the Lord would
help those who helped themselves, and with
this thought in his mind he began digging
holes in the sides of the well, and finally
succeeded in climbing to the top, wet and
muddy, but fortunately unhurt.
Ed Tullis, a negro living ON the Wiley
plantation in the Seventeenth district of
Sumter county. was killed on Thursday last
by Nose Carter, another negro living on
the same plantation. The cause that led TO
the killing is about as follows: The two men
had been engaged in making cotton baskets
loT stNtiui pllOi Tic ole Oii WHICH
the homicide occurred, the agreement
between them being that when the
work was done the baskets were to be
equally divided between the two When
the day for the division came, however,
TulIis refused to divide, claiming all the
baskets as his own, and also cursed Carter
roundly. The latter did not resent the ours
ing, but on the other hand, evidently desir-
ing to avoid a difficulty, turned and walked
away. This seemed to infuriate Tullis,
who at once drew his knife and
advanced upon Carter, all the time
cursing and abusing. Carter, seeing the
knife IN the hands of the angry man turned
and was Immediately pursued by Tullis,
who gained ON him SO rapidly that Carter
stopped and picked UP small mallet with
which to defend himself, and as his adversary
closed upon him, knife in hand, dealt him
blow upon the back of the head
with the mallet, killing him almost
instantly. Carter at once surrendered him
self and was brought to town and given n
preliminary trial Friday morning, when
the facts, as given above, were testified TO
by a number of witnesses. AS the killing
was done entirely in self-defense and was,
therefore, Unsuitable, Judge Allen Fort re-
leased the prisoner on the mere nominal
bond of S25, for his appearance before the
grand jury in October.
FLORIDA.